Type, Type
This type of memory temporarily holds a small amount of information, typically for about 15 to 30 seconds. It has a limited capacity.
What is Short Term Memory?
This is a type of memory encoding that requires active work and attention to embed information into long-term memory.
What is Effortful Processing?
These memories involve the conscious recall of facts and experiences.
What is Explicit Memory?
A learning strategy where content is studied intensively over a short period without breaks.
What is Massed Practice or "Cramming"?
A common memory experience where an individual feels confident that they know a word or a name, but cannot immediately recall it.
What is the Tip-of-the-Tongue Phenomenon?
The three stages of memory (in order).
What is Encoding, Storage, Retrieval?
This is the unconscious encoding of information about space, time, frequency, and well-learned tasks.
What is Automatic Processing?
A type of explicit memory that involves the recollection of personal experiences and specific events.
Remembers the "what," "where," and "when" of past experiences. Recalled from a first-person viewpoint.
What is Episodic Memory?
The phenomenon where learning is more effective when study sessions are spaced out over time, rather than crammed into one session.
What is Spacing Effect or Distributed Practice?
The inability to remember where, when, or how previously learned information has been acquired (lost context), while retaining the factual knowledge.
What is Source Amnesia?
This is a form of short-term memory used for temporarily holding and manipulating information. Short-term and long-term memories combine.
What is Working Memory?
This is a basic level of processing that focuses on surface characteristics of information, such as the sound or appearance of words, without engaging with its meaning.
What is Shallow Encoding?
A type of explicit memory that involves the recall of general facts and knowledge about the world.
Knowledge of concepts, words, symbols, and meanings. Information is independent of personal experience and context.
What is Semantic Memory?
A learning technique that involves repeatedly reviewing information to keep it in short-term memory.
What is Maintenance Rehearsal?
Memory disorder characterized by an inability to form new memories following the onset of the amnesia, although memories from before the event remain intact.
Older memories, formed before the amnesia, are usually preserved.
What is Anterograde Amnesia?
This model describes memory as a three-part system that includes: Sensory Memory, Short-term Memory & Long-term Memory.
What is the Multi-Store Model?
This memory strategy helps aid encoding. It involves grouping individual pieces of information into larger, meaningful units.
What is Chunking? (Grouping)
This type of memory does not require conscious thought and is crucial for performing everyday tasks automatically.
What is Implicit Memory?
Stimuli that help bring previously learned information to mind. They play a critical role in the process of retrieving memories and can be internal or external.
What are Retrieval Cues?
Memory disorder that involves the loss of memories formed before the onset of amnesia.
What is Retrograde Amnesia?
The two types of sensory memory AND what they do.
These are two types of shallow encoding.
What are Structural: type of shallow processing that focuses on the physical structure of information.
Phonemic: shallow processing that focuses on the auditory aspects of information. ??
Remembering to perform a planned action or recall a planned intention at some future point.
Remembering to perform an action triggered by specific cues (e.g., giving a message when you see someone).
Remembering to perform an action at a specific time (e.g., taking medication at noon).
What is Prospective Memory?
The two types of Interference and what each type means.
Proactive Interference: occurs when older memories inhibit the ability to learn and remember new information.
Retroactive Interference: occurs when new learning impairs the recall of previously encoded information.
The difference between Repression and Suppression.
Repression: Unwanted thoughts/ memories are unconsciously blocked.
Suppression: Unwanted thoughts/ memories are consciously blocked and pushed away.